![]() ^ "Warren Zevon Chart History ( Billboard 200)".^ "Charts.nz – Warren Zevon – Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School".Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). ^ "dancing academy" in Jonathan Green, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, 2nd ed., 2006.^ "Warren Zevon: Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone"."Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School – Warren Zevon | Songs, Reviews, Credits". Letter to You, a 2020 Bruce Springsteen album featuring his rendition of "Janey Needs a Shooter".George Gruel, Jimmy Wachtel, Michael Curtis – photographyĬharts Sales chart performance for Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School Chart (1980)Īustralian Albums ( Kent Music Report). ![]() Ernie Sheesley, Niko Bolas, Serge Reyes – engineers.Joe Walsh – lead guitar on "Jungle Work" and "Jeannie Needs a Shooter".Waddy Wachtel – lead guitar on "A Certain Girl" guitar on "Empty-Handed Heart".Souther – backing vocals on "Gorilla, You're a Desperado" and "Bed of Coals" Linda Ronstadt – descant on "Empty-Handed Heart" backing vocals on "Bed of Coals".Ben Keith – pedal steel guitar on "Bed of Coals".Don Henley – harmony vocals on "Wild Age" and "Gorilla, You're a Desperado".Glenn Frey – harmony vocals on "Bill Lee" and "Wild Age".Don Felder – guitar on "A Certain Girl".Jackson Browne – guitar, slide guitar on "Gorilla, You're a Desperado" backing vocals on "A Certain Girl", "Play It All Night Long" and "Gorilla, You're a Desperado".Rick Marotta – percussion, drums, vocals, bells, Syndrums.David Lindley – lap steel on "Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School" and "Play It All Night Long" guitar on "Wild Age".Jorge Calderón – guitar on "A Certain Girl" backing vocals on "Jungle Work".Warren Zevon – organ, synthesizer, bass guitar, guitar, harmonica, piano, strings, keyboards, vocals.The album was dedicated to Ken Millar (1915–1983), popularly known as mystery writer Ross Macdonald, who had assisted Zevon in fighting through substance abuse addiction and successfully completing related treatment. The term "dancing school" has been used as a euphemism for a brothel since the mid-17th century. (Ironically Zevon's more famous song " Werewolves of London" has a similar riff to "Sweet Home Alabama") Its sardonic reference to Lynyrd Skynyrd's " Sweet Home Alabama" in the chorus signals that Skynyrd's glorification of southern life is the target of Zevon's dark caricature, while also suggesting that such music can bring some degree of escape, if not transcendence, to an otherwise intolerable existence. "Play It All Night Long" is a bracing take on the presumed bleak realities of white southern rural poverty, or "country living". Three singles were released from the album, one of which charted: "A Certain Girl" (a cover of a song previously recorded by Ernie K-Doe and The Yardbirds) reached No. 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Zevon's second and final hit on that chart. The album was released on February 15, 1980, by Elektra Records. Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon.
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